That's where the funding came from to build a recent extension of a popular bike path here on Long Island. But, as with many government projects, the DOT designers took advantage of an opportunity to add more miles to nowhere under the guise of building a bikeway to a train station. The bikeway ends on a busy street about three miles from the rr station, then provides nothing but a striped line and some "Bike Lane" signs the rest of the way. In some places, this designated bike lane is no more than a foot wide and puts riders within inches of fast passing cars.

Anybody who is a serious cyclist or cyclo-commuter knows it's all smoke and mirrors and that NOBODY is going to commute to the railroad station this way. We're just grateful to have another ten miles of bikeway on which to take our kids, regardless of how it got there. But as far as this bikeway being "useful" or a step toward breaking our community's dependence on cars, faghettaboutit!